Gespräche gegen das Vergessen

In the organizer's words:

The first of the Nuremberg trials against 24 major war criminals began 80 years ago in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. They included Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Hans Frank and Joachim von Ribbentropp. Twelve of them were sentenced to death. They were the Nazi elite.

To this day, the Nuremberg Trials are regarded as a milestone in international law - as an attempt to establish justice against injustice. At this year's "Conversations against Forgetting", the relevance of the trials will be highlighted and at the same time questioned: Who was NOT in the dock? What continuities remained - in the authorities, the justice system, family histories?

The trials enabled many Germans to make a comfortable separation between "the perpetrators" and their own person or society. What does this mean for us today? How did this selective image of justice affect the collective memory of post-war German society? How do we counter anti-democratic tendencies today?

Guests:

Niklas Frank, son of the Nazi criminal Hans Frank, who was executed in Nuremberg

Dr. Eva Umlauf, Holocaust survivor

Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, historian

Moderation: Andreas Bönte

In cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARD alpha